Most of those jobs are not going to be in the United States. WalMart has reached saturation in over 30 states, WalMart has been pumping up pilot projects in China and developing nations for the last several years. This is where WalMart sees growth potential.
D@mn it too soon, I'm off to latch on to one of those f#cking pain in the A$$, worthless G#d D@mn door greeter position then!
I'm a shoe-in for it!
Seriously, at least there is a spark of hope out there. : )
People joke about WalMart customers, but the stores are well run, the staff knowledgeable and ... The Price Is Right!
I even applied for work at WalMart last year, to supplement my retirement income, so they might be hiring in my area.
Maybe Wal-Mart is losing sales because they raised their prices too much overthe last 18 months and have just started cutting them back to previous levels in some areas.
Their food prices are nothing to write home about unless they are the only sizable store in town.
That is entirely different from the actual HIRING of a half-million (or even one) employee.
And, as mentioned above, this could be anywhere ... china?
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Wow! This is great news! I hope that this may be the start of recovering from our unemployment problem (which is the result of recession). Let’s keep our fingers crossed.
Better Walmart create jobs than the government. In fact, imagine if Walmart was put in charge of the government! They would cut so much waste that the national debt might actually come down!
Well, if this is true, then it won’t be long till ossama bin obama takes the company over. You see, we can’t have private enterprise succeeding.
So in January Sams lays off 10% of their employees, http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/01/24/20100124Walmart-layoffs-ON.html, and WalMart lays off 800 main office workers, http://www.4029tv.com/money/18682143/detail.html, and now they’re planning to hire employees who-knows-where and we’re supposed to be ecstatic? I don’t think so.
Wal-Mart could make a huge retail splash by expanding on their medical clinic idea. The best bet would be to have a “medical caravan” that would do a very detailed medical analysis of people lasting 1-2 hours.
Medically, “the works”. Before the caravan arrives at a given Wal-Mart, people interested in a comprehensive medical survey would get their paperwork and packets for a stool sample, DNA sample, and hair sample, which they would bring in on their scheduled day.
When they arrived they would present their paperwork that would be inputted while they were giving a urine sample, blood pressure, height, weight, eye color, blood samples, saliva sample, skin sample, fingerprints, footprints, retinal scan, getting a full body X-Ray and other scans, then they would do mobility tests, neurological tests, vision, hearing, odor tests (now being used to diagnose several diseases), get a full allergy panel, and likely a bunch of other tests.
The blood samples alone would also be comprehensive, checking levels of liver chemicals, hormones, metals, semi-metals and nonmetals and salts, vitamins, and looking for any number of other chemical tags, disease indicators, etc., etc. Then the DNA analysis would also expose all sorts of other information.
With such a survey like that, future medical analysis and diagnosis would be substantially easier and far less expensive.
By doing hundreds of people in a day, Wal-Mart would also become a powerful source for medical research, which is very profitable.
Hey, if we’re not going to have our postal service do the census for us, we might as well contract it out to Walmart next time around.
Should make for one helluva bull market in burqas.
Which country are they hiring these 500,000 in?
Since Obama became prez and the economy crashed, I have not shopped at any of these stores. I grow food and buy what I need in addition to storage stocks (for me and my neighbors’s children). I don’t buy clothes or anything else I don’t absolutely need. Walmart is Chi-com, La Raza crap in Texas.